I'm currently running three 300 gallon tanks, they're bare bottom and just have coral in them and a tang in each tank, I'm having tons of algae problems it's growing on some of my corals, and on my acroporas and stuff... killing areas of them and i have to do emergency clippings... I know my phosphates or something have to be really high even though my tests show wonderful results. So i'm assuming its just getting taken out of the water nearly as fast as its going in.
Should i be scraping all the algae i see out of the tank all the time? does it somehow feed off it's self? Second. we have power heads in the tanks, should they be angled towards the ground to stir up the detrius? (and does coral/algae make detrius? or is that just fish).
Also. my fan heads are getting pretty full of algae... Is there a more effective way than scraping it off to clean them? Can i run the heads in a bucket of bleach or vinegar?
Any help would be great. thanks.
Should i be scraping all the algae i see out of the tank all the time? does it somehow feed off it's self? Second. we have power heads in the tanks, should they be angled towards the ground to stir up the detrius? (and does coral/algae make detrius? or is that just fish).
Also. my fan heads are getting pretty full of algae... Is there a more effective way than scraping it off to clean them? Can i run the heads in a bucket of bleach or vinegar?
Any help would be great. thanks.